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    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL. 9

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    most backward as well as the most advanced , are , in each generation , better protected against the violence and rapacity of one another , both

    by a more efficient judicature and police for the suppression of private impunit leges crime , which and y upon b enabled y the the decay rest certain . and They classes destruction are also of , the in of community those every mischievous generation to prey , better privi with

    protected , either by institutions " or by manners and opinions , against arbitrary exercise of the power of government . Even in semi-barbarous Russiaacts of spoliation directed against individuals who

    have not made , themselves politically obnoxious are not supposed to be now so frequent as much to affect any person ' s feelings of security .

    Taxation in all European countries grows less arbitrary and oppressiveboth in itself and in the manner of levying it . Wars , and the

    destruction , they cause , are now usually confined , in almost every in country contact , to with those savages distant . and Even outl the ying vicissitudes possessions of and fortune at which which softened it comes arise to

    from inevitable natural calamities , are more more those on whom they fall , by the continual extension of the salutary practice The mention of insurance of in . " surance in the last line of the above sentence

    brings us to the consideration of another very important means of attention ameliorating The advantages from the the condition readers of the princi of of John women ple of Stuart co . -operation Mill . In to Doctor women Elizabeth , deserves

    _BlackwelTs . lectures , delivered in England last year , she made _. from her point of view almost the same remarks as those of the political

    economist on association . It is interesting to observe how these two long ciple -si ; g the hted one seers as de look sirable forward for the to sake the extension of professional of the women same ; prin the

    capacit other _" The as y necessary of peculi co- ar operation characteristic for the ; progress and , this in , of short like society , of other . civilized faculties beings , tends , is the to

    improve wider dent of sphere the by practice progressive of action , and . According becomes change taking capable ly , there place of is assuming no in more societ a certain y constantl than inci the y -

    , continual growth of the principle and practice of co-operation . Associations of individuals voluntarily combining their small

    contriother butions characters , now perform , which works no one , both person of , or an small industrial number and of of which of persons many the ,

    to few are exact rich persons enoug the capable most h to inordinate accomp of accomp lish , remunerations li or shing for the them performance . were As formerl wealth y increases enabled

    and business capacity improves , we may look forward to a great extension of establishments both for industrial and other purposes ,

    formed by the collective contributions of large numbers ; establishments like those known by the technical name of joint-stock

    companies numerous , or in the Eng associations land , to raise less formall funds y for constituted public or , which philanthrop are so ic

    The Opinions Of John Stuart Mill. 9

    THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL . 9

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/9/